Single mother Juanjin has great hopes when a sewing factory opens in her remote Chinese village but chances to improve her lot turn into unforeseen challenges. When the line of strange holiday items the factory produces is switched for dolls' costumes, both her perceptions of the west, and her plans for escape change.

‘Thin Places’ are like metaphysical magnets. They are so called by ancient orders of Celts for their intrinsic attraction to converging fault lines. These lines are what separate reality from the alternate and metaphysical realities than run constantly parallel to this one. 'Thin Places' are where recorded and undocumented histories reverberate through time itself.

It is the early 1990s and Zhou Haonan, an innocent young man from a rural family in China's West Canton Province, travels to the `golden city' of Shenzhen to seek his fortune. He spends the next 20 years striving desperately to achieve his dream of a Shenzhen permanent residence and a home of his own.

Meet Alberta, a seventeen-year-old chimp with a brain resembling Einstein’s brain in form and function. With an affinity for abstract math and an IQ of 131, she is arguably smarter than most humans. Alberta wants rights and protections—to become first breathing nonhuman person recognized by American law.

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